Outlaw, hackers, victorian amateurs: diagnosing public participation in the life sciences today
This essay reflects on three figures that can be used to make sense of DOPA Mucuna the changing nature of public participation in the life sciences today: outlaws, hackers and Victorian gentlemen.Occasioned by a symposium held at UCLA (Outlaw Biology: Public Participation in the Age of Big Bio), the essay introduces several different modes of parti